Walsum 10 Power Station

Walsum 10 Power Station is proposed by a Steag (51%)/EVN (49%) joint venture company formed in March 2005 to have an installed capacity of 750 megawatts and cost 800 million euros to construct. The project was proposed in September 2005 and is on the site of the existing Walsum power station site. (Steag currently operates a two-unit cogeneration plant at the Duisburg-Walsum site with an installed capacity of 600 megawatts.) The proposed new unit is referred to as Walsum 10. In a media release Steag stated that "construction begins in the year 2006/2007; commercial operation should commence in 2010". It also stated that Purchasers of the electricity are EVN AG (Energie-Versorgung Niederösterreich) and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG;

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